Sentence examples for a knockout debate from inspiring English sources

We're left waiting for a knockout debate.

But neither candidate delivered a knockout punch as the debate turned repeatedly to the polarizing question of the status of Islam in governance.

Quinnipiac pollster Peter Brown looks at new numbers out of battleground states and declares that McCain needs a "knockout" in the final debate to come from behind.

The underdog comes under intense pressure to deliver a knockout blow in presidential debates but rarely achieves this.

And by all accounts, Mr. Thompson, who delivered a middling performance in the first debate, needed a knockout blow to shake up the campaign in its final days.

With the presidential election looming and both sides looking for a knockout blow in the vice-presidential debate on Thursday evening, now is a good time for both Democrats and Republicans to look for one more defining issue.

However, O'Brien didn't run the greatest campaign in the world: she never delivered a knockout performance in any of her debates with Romney, and she completely self-destructed during the final debate.

Logsdon, the political scientist, said that debate watchers can expect Webb to attempt a knockout punch on Chafee in the early minutes of the debate, but warned, "That punch had better land".

Neither candidate scored a knockout punch in Monday's third and final debate, as both men reined in the confrontational sniping that had marked their previous testy encounter.

More than 13 weeks remain before the last contest — the June 7 contest for Puerto Rico's 63 delegates — and any number of game-changing gaffes, knockouts, debates, advertisements or world events could influence the race by then.

The failure to get matching funds and qualify for debates will almost certainly be a knockout blow.